How to Tell If a Basement Was Finished to Hide Water Damage Know the signs of a cover-up renovation.
How to Turn Your Crawlspace Into a Basement (and When You Shouldn’t) You can turn a tight crawlspace into a usable basement, but it won’t be cheap—or easy.
How to decorate basement? How do people feel about our new basement? Wife & I recently bought a 1965 built home with this finished basement. Floor is 100% slate (!) and there’s some cool prominent granite walls near the pool table and at the base of the stairs. The design/feel of the basement can feel kind of “cold” per se. I feel like that may be primarily driven by th…
The Best Items to Organize an Unfinished Basement Having an unfinished basement doesn’t mean you can’t keep your belongings safe, dry, and organized.
My cozy basement corner submitted by /u/An_Atheist_in_heaven
Looking for pictures of main floor loft overlooking walkout basement Sorry if this is not allowed.. if not can you please point me in the direction of where to post. I am looking to build a lake house and builder suggested having a “reverse ranch” with the “main” ground floor being primary suite with a living area and wet bar that overlooks walkout basement loft style. Basement would have main kitchen and living …
Thoughts on basement geo accent wall design submitted by /u/Tapir_herdsman
Where would you put a basement closet? Our house has ONE actual closet! The rest are ikea-style closet cabinets. However we do have some decent open space and so I want to make one. I marked in blue where I’m thinking we’d put a ~4 ft wide walk in, and we’d cut another hole in the wall for the first guest bedroom. Do you see a reasonable space for another? With the layout and windows…
My cozy basement music room submitted by /u/Kirkwood1994
This tiny basement well room makes a good hideaway submitted by /u/pfritzmorkin
Please help me with ideas or sketchups of this alcove in my basement finish project submitted by /u/Interesting_Ant_2185
Awkward basement, please criticize my layout design. First time homeowner with small unfinished basement. Current layout is awkward. Hoping to DIY create more usable spaces and maximize usage. submitted by /u/ZeitGeist001
What are these crevices for? Moving into an apartment and my bedroom in the basement level has these crevices on both sides of the wall. I can’t figure out what that was the purpose for or how to best utilize the space. submitted by /u/streetlightforcity
What kind of furniture for basement to have people over Hey my gf and I just bought a house and are having troubles deciding what kind of furniture to put in the basement. Basically we want to fit as many people down here as possible but with being comfy and spacious to have game night. Heres’s a picture of what the previous current owners have the basement looking like. submitted by /u/jounce…
Ideas of what color to paint my basement. Look for something darker that will look decent with this couch. I’m currently considering Cracked Pepper by Behr. Other areas of the basement will be white (Greek vanilla). Thoughts? submitted by /u/whistlewink
1200 SF Basement Design Feedback I am looking at adding a bedroom/bathroom and living room to a 1200 SF unfinished basement. https://imgur.com/TncQjjW I’ve got very little idea of how to make this area actually function as I think it is an awkward area to layout. Open to any ideas! submitted by /u/PresidentKarma
Listen Early to ‘This American Life’: And the Call Was Coming From the Basement Zombie raccoons, David Sedaris and haunted houses.
How to make finished basement more inviting? It’s our primary living space Our basement flooded earlier this year and wr finally had our floors refinished. Opposite the couch is where our TV unit goes. Back behind the couch, we plan on installing a bar/counter between the two support pillars with stools. A rug is obviously a must under the couch. In the meantime, I’m unsure how to spruce up the walls. I’m intimidated b…
The basement is…. weird…. This is the same house I bought recently with the fireplace that is too high. This is the basement. We were told that the design was due to some level of soundproofing so that drums could be played. The red carpet is everywhere and overwhelming. I checked with a black light and don’t worry, there is nothing on it. The red “sofa” things are quite…
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